Editing King's Counsel (section)

==== Summary of Australian jurisdictions ====

{| class="wikitable"
!Jurisdiction
!Appointments
!Notes
|-
|[[New South Wales]]
|SC
|Appointed QC from 1856 to 1993. Appointed only SC since 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senior Counsel |url=https://nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/senior-counsel |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=[[New South Wales Bar Association]]}}</ref>
|-
|[[Victoria (state)|Victoria]]
|KC and SC
|Appointed QC from 1863 to 2000.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Merralls |first=J D |date=1994 |title=Some Marginal Notes About Queen's Counsel |journal=Victorian Bar News |volume=89 |pages=51–55}}</ref> Appointed only SC from 2000 to 2014. Since 2014, SC may become a QC on application.
|-
|[[Queensland]]
|KC
|Appointed QC from 1856 to 1994.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hobbs |first=Harry |author-link=Harry Hobbs |date=24 Apr 2014 |title=Putting the Queen back in Queensland |url=https://ssrn.com/abstract=2428610 |journal=Alternative Law Journal |volume=39 |issue=1|pages=9–11 |doi=10.1177/1037969X1403900103 |hdl=10453/130447 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Appointed only SC from 1994 to 2013. Appointed only QC since 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=King's Counsel & Senior Counsel |url=https://qldbar.asn.au/baq-cms/kings-counsel |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Bar Association of Queensland}}</ref>
|-
|[[Western Australia]]
|SC
|Appointed only SC since 2001.
|-
|[[South Australia]]
|SC
|Appointed QC from 1864 to 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Court History |url=https://www.courts.sa.gov.au/court-history/ |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Courts Administration Authority of South Australia}}</ref> Appointed only SC from 2008 to 2020. Between 2020 and 2024, SC could become a QC on application.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chapman |first=Jemma |date=28 Sep 2020 |title=SA legal industry welcomes return of QC title |url=https://www.indaily.com.au/news/local/2020/09/28/sa-legal-industry-welcomes-return-of-qc-title |work=InDaily}}</ref> Since 2024, reverted to only appointing SC.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 June 2024 |title=KCs band: that's the way they don't like it |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/3068467222 |url-access=subscription |work=The Advertiser |id={{ProQuest|3068467222}} |via=Proquest}}</ref>
|-
|[[Tasmania]]
|SC
|Appointed only SC since 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blow |first=Justice A M |date=15 April 2015 |title=Ceremonial Sitting: 2015 |url=https://www.supremecourt.tas.gov.au/publications/speeches-articles/ceremonial-sitting-2015/ |access-date= |website=[[Supreme Court of Tasmania]] |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|[[Australian Capital Territory]]
|SC
|Appointed only SC since 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 Sep 1995 |title=Practice Direction No 2 of 1994: Further Amended 12 September 1995: Queen's Counsel – Senior Counsel |url=https://www.courts.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/969470/practice_direction_2_of_94.pdf |website=Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory}}</ref>
|-
|[[Northern Territory]]
|KC and SC
|Appointed both QC and SC since 2007.
|-
|Commonwealth
|KC
|Appointed only SC from 2010 to 2013. Appointed only QC since 2013.
|}